Featured Business & Economy 11 December 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol Administration Abruptly Reverses on Disposables Four years of planning to end the use of disposables was scrapped indefinitely.
Featured Conservatives 7 December 2023 People Power Party Doubles Down on Real Estate Trying to recover from the by-election loss, the conservative ruling party sticks to what it knows.
Featured Society 6 December 2023 Childcare Leave Underutilized, Especially Among Men: Data Even among public officials with job security, men rarely take a childcare leave.
Featured Newsletter 4 December 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 5, November 2023 The Yoon Suk-yeol administration’s bid for the 2030 World Expo ended in an embarrassing flop. Also: a new movie about the military coup of Chun Doo-hwan is a box-office smash.
Featured Business & Economy 4 December 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol Attacks Kakao The president is directly involved in attacking South Korea's "super app" company.
Society 1 December 2023 Bizarre Fraud Against Olympic Medalist Grips the Nation Fake chaebol heir who wanted to duel Elon Musk claimed to be a transgender man with a testicular transplant.
Featured Media 30 November 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Media Enforcers Come for the Internet Partisan appointments and procedural gamesmanship lead to an unprecedented attempt to regulate political speech.
Featured Society 29 November 2023 More Immigrants, but from Different Places Fewer Korean Chinese, more Southeast Asians.
Featured Newsletter 27 November 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, November 2023 North Korea repudiated the critical September 19 Inter-Korean Military Agreement. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s trouser troubles.
Featured National Assembly 27 November 2023 Yong Hye-in Shines in the Legislative Audit The public is more attuned to the National Assembly.
Featured Conservatives 24 November 2023 Widespread Election Denial Among Conservatives: Data Yoon Suk-yeol administration is fanning the flame.
Featured Society 23 November 2023 The Itaewon Disaster, One Year Later Gross abdication of duty and victim-blaming.
History 22 November 2023 Conservatives Shun the Bu-Ma Uprising Memorial Remaining true to their dictatorship roots.
Featured Newsletter 20 November 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, November 2023 KBS sacked numerous journalists after the Yoon Suk-yeol administration appointed a new head. Also: In Yo-han’s tug-of-war with the People Power Party.
Featured Business & Economy 20 November 2023 YTN, Leading Cable News Channel, Changes Ownership News channel is no longer publicly owned.
Featured Media 16 November 2023 The Most Trusted Name in News Bids Farewell Son Seok-hee held the title of South Korea's most trusted journalist for 17 years in a row.
Featured Society 15 November 2023 Views on Poverty, from 1990 to 2023: Poll The mood is grimmer and less charitable.
Featured Newsletter 13 November 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2023 The National Assembly approved a major expansion of labor rights as a presidential veto loomed. Also: Yoon Suk-yeol’s penchant for international jaunts.
Featured Business & Economy 13 November 2023 Local Governments are Running Out of Money City of Uijeongbu is unable to pay its workers for the remainder of the year.
Featured Society 10 November 2023 Meth in Incheon, Cocaine in Daegu: Data Surprisingly high use of drugs, in surprising locations.
Featured Foreign Policy 9 November 2023 Starter Kit: South Korea and Israel Formally, one Middle Eastern country out of many; informally, a great influencer.
Featured Business & Economy 8 November 2023 High Inflation Pressures the Chuseok Table The cost of food and other essentials are rising rapidly.
Featured Newsletter 6 November 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2023 The People Power Party geared up for the General Election with a raft of outlandish and off-the-cuff pledges.
Featured Courts 6 November 2023 National Assembly Rejects Supreme Court Chief Nominee The rejection is the first time in 35 years.
Featured Bureaucracy 3 November 2023 Finance Ministry Wildly Inaccurate in Budget Deficit Estimate Persistent errors raise suspicions of the bureaucracy's partisanship.
Elections 2 November 2023 Gangseo-gu District Chief Election Previews the Assembly Election The district is one of many in Seoul that flipped from liberal to conservatives. Can the Democratic Party take it back?
Featured Society 1 November 2023 Fewer Go Home for Chuseok: Data Instead of a homecoming, Netflix and chill.
Featured Newsletter 31 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol honored the memory of a dead dictator, but not the people who died in the Itaewon Disaster. Also: media suppression intensifies.
Culture 30 October 2023 Faker, the Gold Medalist The greatest pro gamer of all time took the inaugural gold medal in the Asian Games.
Liberals 27 October 2023 Court Denies Arrest Warrant for Lee Jae-myung Court found no direct evidence of prosecutors' charges against Lee.
National Security 26 October 2023 The Chickenhawk’s Military Parade The president who never served his military duty was delighted to lead a military parade.
Society 25 October 2023 Poll: Two Gyeonggi-do Provinces? Majority favors splitting up South Korea's most populous province.
Featured Newsletter 23 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol visited Saudi Arabia without his Secretary of Protocol. Also: The Itaewon Disaster, one year later.
Liberals 23 October 2023 Continued Lynching of Cho Kuk's Family The Yoon Suk-yeol administration continues to hound the former Justice Minister's daughter.
Business & Economy 20 October 2023 Record Number of Construction Company Failures The number of construction company bankruptcies is the highest since 2006.
Liberals 19 October 2023 Lee Jae-myung Faces Down a Mutiny The liberal leader faces his greatest test yet.
Featured Newsletter 16 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol administration faced the fallout from a landslide loss in the Gangseo-gu District by-election. Also: a primer on South Korea and Israel.
Featured Society 13 October 2023 Season of Cheese: Festival in Imsil-gun Now, for something light-hearted.
Featured Breaking News 11 October 2023 Breaking News: Democratic Party Scores a Thumping Victory in the Gangseo-gu District By-Election The by-election is seen as the preview for the upcoming Assembly Election.
Featured Business & Economy 11 October 2023 Household Debt Creeps Up Again Mortgages taken out by investors attempting to buy the debt is raising household debt to a dangerous level.
Featured Newsletter 9 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, October 2023 The National Assembly rejected the Chief Justice nomination for the first time in 35 years. Also: the implications of a Gangseo-gu District by-election.
Featured United States 9 October 2023 Low Trust in the US Election System: Survey Joe Biden remains more popular than Donald Trump among Koreans.
Featured Media 6 October 2023 Prosecutors Raid Liberal Media Outlets Reporting on Prosecutors' Misuse of Budget The International Federation of Journalists denounced the raids, calling them “intimidation and legal harassment”.
Featured Bureaucracy 5 October 2023 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Retrograde Cabinet Appointments Openly advocating for military coup is not a dealbreaker for this administration.
Featured Buzzword 4 October 2023 "Cartel": Yoon Suk-yeol's New Favorite Word "Did you just learn that word? Because you tend to say it a lot."
Featured Newsletter 3 October 2023 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, September 2023 Lee Jae-myung avoided arrest while Yoon Suk-yeol held a military parade. South Korea celebrated Chuseok.
Featured Society 2 October 2023 Polls About Polls: Data Koreans generally trust surveys, but not the ones about politics.
Featured Business & Economy 29 September 2023 Budget Deficit Leads to Risk of Greater Exchange Rate Volatility The Finance Ministry is using the exchange rate stabilization fund to fill the hole in the budget.
Featured Blue House 28 September 2023 Leaks Upon Leaks: Yoon Suk-yeol’s Incontinent Presidency Sensitive information flowing out of the Office of the President shows Yoon Suk-yeol's weak presidency.
